Monthly Archives: September 2008

Panasonic TX-32LXD85

We have a new digital flat panel at home hooked up to an Ubuntu box running MythTV.  I can get the box to drive the display at 1280×720 (720p) but the manual says it can be driven at higher resolutions.  I suspect I’ll be tinkering with modelines over the coming days.

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When it’s sunny

After this year’s festival wash outs at Beautiful Days (not so beautiful in all that mud) and Bestival (certainly some of the best mud I have ever personally witnessed) I have had a think, and it is with much sadness that I’m announcing my retirement from camping at music festivals.  I’ve been doing this quite [...]

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2Wire 2701HG gateway

Vic’s company supply her with a broadband connection and a 2Wire 2701HG gateway.  The router is an ugly, chunky piece of kit, but it does most things more or less.  It doesn’t have any support for DynDNS, I’ve had to install ddclient on Ubuntu to manage that for me.  The manual for the router is [...]

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